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Somali gunmen have shot and killed a truck
driver for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the fourth
this year, the agency said Wednesday. Ahmed Saalim was part
of a convoy of trucks carrying 602 metric tons of food from Mogadishu
to Bay and Bakool regions, the WFP said. The agency called on all parties to ensure the...
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Unknown gunmen have shot and killed the head of the United Nations' Development Programme in Somalia, reports said Sunday.
The BBC reported that Osman Ali Ahmed was shot as he left a mosque in
the Somali capital Mogadishu. He died in hospital of his injuries. Ahmed's son and another man were reportedly wounded in the attack. ...
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 The violent conflict between Ethiopian troops and Islamist
fighters trying to bring down Somalia’s
government killed 81 people over the weekend and wounded 119. Most of them were
civilians. After the bloody attack, hundreds of residents evacuated the area,
abandoned their homes trying to escape Mogadishu.
Others removed corpses from...
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 Heavily armed Islamist militants took over a central Somali
town Sunday and killed two British and two Kenyan teachers, the Associated
Press reports. It appears that three of the victims are women and the fourth
victim is reported to be a Somali man with British citizenship, returned to his
hometown in order to build a...
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 Three U.S. high precision missiles hit a Somali town in which Islamic extremists were taking shelter early Monday. The village of Dhoobley became a target for the U.S. military because it includes a "facility where there were known terrorists" affiliated with East African al Qaeda operations, U.S. military official said. The...
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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with leaders from troubled
African nations Wednesday, calling for greater vigilance in keeping out
"negative forces" from Congo and a robust peacekeeping force for
war-torn Somalia.
Rice's 24-hour visit to the vast Horn of Africa nation was meant to
spur movement on...
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 Latest estimates regarding the number of people displaced in
the war-torn Afghanistan nation of Somalia "has risen sharply to a
staggering 1 million,” according to The U.N. refugee agency.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday that
about 60 percent or 600,000 people are thought to have fled from the capital...
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 According to witnesses and doctors reports on Friday, heavy
fighting between insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's shaky
government has killed more than 40 people and wounded 50 others in the past 24
hours.
Ethiopian troops based at the former defense ministry in the
south of the capital killed eight civilians early...
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 According to a local media report, at least three Ugandan
soldiers have been injured in an attack on African Union troops in Somalia's
capital where the 1,600 peacekeepers are based. AU spokesman Paddy Ankunda told the BBC that soldiers were
guarding Mogadishu's port when
mortars were fired at them. He called for more peacekeepers to...
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 The general director of a local independent radio station in Mogadishu and another colleague have been brutally assassinated Saturday in Somalia, apparently for criticizing the poor conditions of Somali people today and the people responsible for it. They are Ali Iman Sharmarke, the owner of the Somali media group HornAfrik, and Mahad...
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 Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and the south-central city of Baidoa were seriously shaken by two blasts that killed more than nine people, media reported Friday. After the guns were silenced in Somalia, bomb attacks resumed bringing new turmoil in the African country. The first incident occurred late Thursday in Baidoa, where five people...
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 The calm didn’t last to much in Somalia’s embattled capital
Mogadishu, a fierce gunbattle leaving six dead behind on Monday, just a day
after the country’s prime minister was nearly killed by a bomb explosion.
A group of suspected Islamist militants opened fire on police
officers, killing two and sparking an intense fire exchange...
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 With their souls still ravaged by the explosions and flying
bullets, thousands of people have returned to Somalia’s
capital Mogadishu, the United
Nations reported.
More than a thousand persons were killed by violent clashes
between governmental troops and insurgents, as 400,000 people were forced to
take the lonely roads of...
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Two South Korean fishing boats have been captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia, officials informed.The Mavuno 1 and Mavuno 2 vessels have been seized Tuesday, when armed men fired from speedboats towards the ships and eventually took control of the two ships and the multinational crew. "The crew are safe. The ship is anchored...
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Four soldiers belonging to the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia were killed Wednesday by the explosion of a bomb in Mogadishu.The Ugandan soldiers were patrolling in the Somali capital when their vehicle was partially destroyed by a roadside bomb. Five other soldiers were gravely wounded, an official of the African Union...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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 According to witnesses and journalists in Mogadishu, neighborhoods in the Somali
capital were deserted on Sunday, a day after 17 civilians were brutally killed
in the wake of intense fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali troops and
Islamic insurgents.
Witnesses in Mogadishu's
al-Baraka neighborhood said the dead included women...
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 A report released by the US-based
group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent
forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in
heavy civilian casualties.
The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked:
Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...
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